Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
Our supreme governors, the mob.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness. . . for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.